miniblog.

My $2/month VPS has stopped and can't even boot, so I've switched provider. It seems like most server providers don't want to offer <$5 machines, and I imagine it's hard to make money at the low end. Several providers require a one-off setup fee too.

I've just realised that Community Fibre, my ISP, offers 5 Gb/s packages in some London addresses! I'm struggling to imagine a use case for such a high residential bandwidth. When I switched to 1 Gb/s I needed to upgrade my wifi router to actually take advantage.

I've dabbled with 'conventional commits' for a personal project but I found they slowed me down. It's not always easy to categorise a commit as a fix, a chore etc. Sometimes refactorings also fix bugs. Do you use them? I can imagine a large, mature project benefitting more.